LallaGin – A New Premium Gin Brand Created by a Female Artist

Christal Lalla, the founder of LallaGin, is a charismatic young American artist, sommelier and spirit designer. Her special gift – olfactory skills, unique sense of taste and smell – became even heightened as a result of her oral cancer. After working as a singer, getting certified as an international sommelier and becoming an international judge working in the wine industry, Christal began designing high-end spirits and has her own product line.

Christal’s passion for tasting and chemistry evolved into a thriving business in the world of spirits. Since 2018, she has been mixing high-end gins and worked on other sophisticated spirits and cocktails in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and the USA.

“The step from a singer to the wine cellar and to distilleries was forced by a stroke of fate with oral cancer. I had to completely reinvent myself,” she adds. “Fortunately, after defeating cancer, my tasting abilities surprisingly improved. And I was lucky, I had the opportunity to co-lead a prestigious Brunello winery in Italy for some years and later to work in a Swiss distillery, designing individual gins for the restaurant L’Amant in Zurich and for restaurants and bars of a very well-known Swiss chef, Andreas Caminada. So, I was able to build up a dense network in the wine and spirits industry and finally start my own production.”

Christal’s recent successfully-owned gin editions are created together with the prestigious Orator Distillery in Pfungen near Zurich and the well-known Wanderer Distillery near Cologne. In Pfungen, Christal composed four completely new gins, the Lalla Gin Four Seasons Limited Edition – a masterpiece dedicated to the memory of her late father Michael. Three of these four gins were awarded with a silver medal at the prestigious DistiSuisse competition 2023/24.

Subsequently, Christal started in Cologne the development of her Carnival Gin—a gin for the very important fifth season in the Rhineland and elsewhere. The new gin will be shortly released for the Carnival Session 2024/25 together with her great cocktail recipes.

“With the Four Seasons Edition, I wanted to design and produce something very high-end, gins which you might even prefer to drink pure”, Christal underlines. “Closing your eyes and taking a sip, you can smell, taste and feel the season and its special botanicals. The labels for the bottles contain my own paintings representing my version of each season with its unique colours. And the Carnival Gin represents fun, an explosion of emotions, colours, and joy, starting from the very special bottle which I personally designed to the distinctive berry flavour with notes of citrus fruits, blueberry, raspberry, cranberry, juniper and more. By the way: Lalla Gin products are based on natural ingredients with bio quality, distilled and mixed separately with high precision and passion, which is crucial to my brand.”

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